Eric: Miles Bader wrote:
Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> writes:Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious?It doesn't seem obnoxious to me. Indeed, as a user, I actually rather appreciate it when maintainer asks me to confirm that a bug I reported is fixed -- it gives the impression that they care about the issue.
Ditto.In fact, I wouldn't even mind getting an automated message saying "you filed a report against x.y; x.y+1 has just been released, could you please try it and see if it addresses your issue?"
b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com